Hi lovelies! Sorry there is some audio sync issues with the video we reacted to. We really hope you enjoy this episode! We certainly plan to look deeper into Cornwall in the future! We know this is just a quick glimpse. Hope to see you for our very first Random Friday episode! Please Like the video & we'll see you soon! ❤❤

I can't believe that the Minack Theatre never featured. This is a theatre hacked out of the cliff face by a lady. Stunning place. I saw the last night of the proms here and it was hammering with rain. Nobody cared, just got on with it. Look it up.

Surprised they didn’t mention the Minack Theatre. This is near Porthcurno on the southern coast. It’s built into the cliffs so is an open air theatre, spectacular in the day but incredible during performances, especially Shakespeare. If you’ve ever seen the UK TV series Doc Martin, this is set in the harbour village of Port Isaac and great views of the area. Some of the buried lines of tin ore are under the ocean so many of the old tin mines are above the cliffs. The Cornish tin miners were experts at hard rock mining and their descendents can be found all over the globe

Tin mixed with copper makes bronze. Tin was plentiful in England but relatively rare on the continent. Trading ports in Cornwall were trading tin with the Phonecians (modern day Lebanon) in 1000 bc. There is a site in Cornwall with pottery from Turkey more than 3000 years old

I believe that the original Cornish Pasty was made so that the tin miners could have a sustaining meal whilst underground. They were very large and the pastry had a thick crimped edge with savoury meat etc at one end and something sweet at the other end. Miners could eat their meal with dirty hands and just leave the thick crimped edge of the pastry that had become dirty (obviously no cutlery was used).

Another great video, love Cornwall glad you managed to see some of it. Another area i really love is Devon as others have said its well worth checking out, Dartmouth, Brixham Harbour, Clovelly, Lynton and Lynmouth, Ilfracombe etc are all pretty places. Parts of Devon are named the English Riviera and the coastline of North Devon is designated an area of outstanding beauty.

Palm trees do just fine all along the South and much of the West coast of the UK. I live in the North West of England in a coastal town (Southport) and there are palms everywhere, including outside of my front window 👍 Edit: You might want to look at the neighbouring county of Devon, also very beautiful.

I'm from the UK and live fairly close to London and Cornwall is one of my favorite places within the UK. It's a beautiful place for a holiday

So beautiful xxx I’m surprised that it didn’t mention Cornish ice cream!! Debbie will fall in love with it xx another great Travel Wednesday ladies and looking forward to Random Friday xxx❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I'm from Tavistock, Devon, which borders Cornwall, and have to agree that the Cornish coast in particular is amazing. However I prefer inland Devon (Dartmoor etc.) to inland Cornwall (Bodmin moor etc.). Another great open minded appreciative video guys.

Hi Girls! Yes the southwestern tip of Cornwall is almost mediterranean. Due probably to the Gulf Stream I think. Another place that may interest you are The Scilly Isles. Haha Tin comes in the form of an ore. No nuggets. It is also usually found around lead which is also mined in the area or used to be. Note: Some of these Cornish tin mines can go out as far as 5 miles or more under the sea!!

The south-west peninsula of England consists of the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset. Popular holiday areas. Must visit Land's End whilst in Cornwall. The north coasts of Cornwall and Devon have a number of great surfing beaches. The south coasts have more cosy coves and rivers and creeks. Family beaches everywhere too. The South West Coast Path takes you round all four counties and all coastlines. Whatever you want for a summer visit, you'll find it here. Allow two to four weeks..

As some others have mentioned the Minack theatre is great and of course Cornish Ice Cream - it’s so good!

We have lived in Cornwall for 36 years. We have the most amazing sandy beaches...too many to mention. We took our dog to Porthtowan beach this morning, just 5 minutes from where we live. Stopped for coffee outside in the sun. Our garden has 5 palm trees and we can grow many tropical plants as the climate is warmer. So many quaint harbours to visit too. Come and see for yourself .

By an amazing coincidence I'm watching this video on 21st March. So happy birthday Debbie!

A large variety of palms are grown and indeed thrive, especially in the south & west. Check out Devon, e.g. (Torbay / Torquay), which is also a very mediterranean-esque type climate.

The climate in Cornwall is very temperate. It doesn't get as hot as the rest of the country in the summer but equally doesn't get as cold in the winter. Its very rare for ice or frost to form in Cornwall, which is what allows the palm trees to survive

Hello from a Cornish maid, so glad you checked out our beautiful home.

You should really check out Dartmouth in Devon. It’s an amazing town on an estuary filled with boats and surrounded by lush green hills. It’s about as picture-postcard as it gets.

Cornwall is in the SW of the UK and the warm weather is a result of the Gulf Stream that brings warm water from the Bahamas. Hence the Palm trees. Without the Gulf stream, many parts of the UK would freeze over as it is the same latitude as Canada.

Cornwall & Devon's climate is warm & wet. I live on the border and have a banana tree growing in the garden. No bananas though!

I live in cornwall and you must get more info to appreciate this fantastic county. By the way cornwall IS its long coastline ,BEACHES WOW! Magnificent cliff scenery, Surfing world class! Fishing villages, tiny Mousehole!, Polperro, Charlestown, etc and many many more some of which used tall ships based here at Charlestown it was featured heavily in the making of POLDARK as were many locations here. Doctor Martin made mainly in Port Issac Fabulous gardens, The Eden Project, Tintagle, King Authur and round table, Merlin,( very Witchy is Cornwall, ) Lands End, The fabulous outdoor Minack theatre auditorium built on cliff face nr Porthcurno, plays, bands, all sorts of entertainment youcan book for these or just visit and hear the amazing story of how this unique place was built. St Michael's Mount, Lands End, Smuggling, one of cornwalls best known occupations in their history, caves tunnels, shipwrecks, mining, sailing, History galore, the cornish people have their own language, THE CORNISH PASTIE yummy (if made correctly).Bodmin Moor, many novels written with this as a location. There are too many things and places to mention but check out Cornwall. I've been very lucky to have also lived in Norfolk which you have featured, wonderful place as well. Thanks for your so interesting features, best one Land of hope and glory.

Cornish pasties are beef mince with carrots and potatoes cooked together, and seasoned and covered in puff pastry, or the traditional pasty is shortcrust pastry. Also in the late spring in to summer, then in to autumn it get really really hot. For Britain.

Anyone visiting Tintagel Castle, must visit the nearby Rocky Valley. An incredibly beautiful, mystical, steep sided valley, past old ruins with Celtic carvings on the rocks, with incredible sea views from the cliffs at the end. About a mile hike, but a never to be forgotten place. And Cornish pasties are nothing like empanadas. Peppery flavoured, filling with meat and diced root vegetables. Absolutely delicious.

We holiday in Cornwall most years our favourite beaches are Mawgan Porth, Kynance Cove and Chapel Porth. Tintagel Castle is ruins, so you can just see the foundations now but we'll worth a visit. As is the Minack Theatre and St Michael's Mount. The while County is just magical - something about the light. Surfing beaches are mainly on the west and the North coasts. Land's End is beautiful too. Hope you get to visit one day.

St Ives in Cornwall is absolutely beautiful and Mevagisy is a beautiful fishing village too!! Cornwall is Stunning!!

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. More please 😊

Go on google images and search, Mudeford Spit, Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth Gardens, Sandbanks, Studland beach, Old Harry's Rocks, Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, Weymouth Harbour, Lyme Regis, Corfe Castle, Abbotsbury Tropical Gardens, Sherborne and Gold Hill. Could have made the list a lot lot longer but those few sites will give you a taste of Dorset, the county I love so much I moved here.

Great video as usual ladies, looking forward to random Fridays

Just got back from Kernow three days ago it's just beautiful

Interestingly. The pasty was invented in Cornwall centuries ago as a Full meal for the tin miners to take into the mines. The crust was the part that was thrown away so it could be eaten with dirty hands. The filling is usually a meat potato and onion with salt and pepper although the original had a pastry divider in the middle so one end was savoury and the other was sweet, traditionally apple. Some placers in Cornwall still make the original tin miners pasty. Tin incidentally is usually the metal that surrounds canned food but is a great additive to lots of useful alloys.

The start of the video with your outtakes 🤣🤣🤣 I was cracking up!! Xxx

I was born and grew up in Cornwall ( Falmouth). It was a great place, but it does get swamped by visitors in summer. The north west coast takes the pounding Atlantic, so that is where you go for surfing, soft sand, dramatic cliffs. The south east coast is more sheltered, there you will find lush tree filled valleys, and quiet creeks. There is a castle at Falmouth called Pendennis, which means Defended Headland in Cornish. It's quite impressive. Land's End is the most westerly point of mainland Britain, and Lizard point the most southerly. Both popular spots. Tin isn't found in nuggets, just tiny flakes. The rock has to be crushed and processed to extract it. Back in the bronze age Cornwall was one of the few places where tin could be found for mixing with copper to make bronze. It was very important. Most of the stone buildings associated with mining that are scattered around were erected in the 19th c and housed steam pumps, and winding drums. I've done st Michael's mount, tintagel, Eden project, helligan, wheal Coates mine. All good days out. 28 miles south west of land's end you will find the Isles of Scilly, they are pretty mind blowing too, and not crowded as they are so isolated.

Lived in Cornwall now for 30 odd years. It's beautiful but, like a lot of rural areas, it's completely underfunded. High poverty and unemployment. Its a massive retirement area so a lot of older, wealthier people buy up the houses, use them as summer houses creating a massive housing crisis. It's beautiful here but there are difficulties.

Lol! Your anecdote about Assassins creed made me laugh! I’m the same as Debbie, I feel sick even watching heights on TV. My son used to play Assassin’s creed and he used to go to the edge of that ledge in the game and I used to yell at him to get down! I use to feel panic even though my brain knew it wasn’t real, my stomach didn’t! We still laugh about that!

Cornwalls coast has loads of beautiful beaches ! The UK is an Island and has beaches all around it

Torquay in Devon has its own palm trees. Torquay palms

I was down in Falmouth for a couple of days last year. It was beautiful.

I've recently found your channel and I've got to say it's been a pleasure watching you girls react to some very cool vids. I lived in the States for 15 years in Arkansas. I grew up in Devon and Cornwall and to watch you both so excited over Cornwall is so awesome!! The Cornish Pasty came about through the wives of Tin miners making their husbands a "Fast food snack", its shortcrust pastry, the filling originally consisted of Diced Potato, off-cuts of beef and swede, swede is what Americans call Rhudabeba. The thick crust was there for a reason, so the miners could eat it holding the thick crust and then discard the crust. Trust me if you EVER get the chance to have a Cornish pasty.....EAT it, they are SO delicious!!

Cornwall is at the SW tip of England, its the sticky out bit beyond Devon and because of its southern situation stretching out its toes into the Atlantic it has milder winters being surrounded by warmer waters. Hence the abundance of palm trees, planted by the early Victorians who were mad on bringing back exotic flora and fauna from across the Empire for the extensive gardens of their large Country Houses. Tin is like lead and is found in seams some of them stretching out under the sea. All mines had to have massive (steam) beam engines to pump out the water continually to stop the workings flooding (and drowning the miners), hence the engine houses and chimneys to be found all over the coastal parts of Cornwall. The Romans knew about the tin and traded with the Cornovi tribes long before they conquered Britain.

I feel so so fortunate to live in Cornwall it really is the most beautiful place and my happy place. Hurry up and come and have a holiday here! You have to try a Cornish cream tea and an ice cream for Debbie with a dollop of Cornish clotted cream on top. If you want to see beautiful beaches take a look at Kynance Cove and Pedn Vounder you will not be disappointed 💜🇬🇧💜

Okay, I live in Cornwall. I live on The Roseland in Cornwall. The nearest place on that video to me is Charlestown - which is just a small village. The video was very poor really. Truro has a capital City with a gothic, beautiful Cathedral in the centre. Where ever you stand in Truro the Cathedral is visible due to the terrain. The Roseland where I live is a bit more of a wealthy area because it is so unspoiled. The beaches are breathtaking. I am so lucky to live here. My family are born and bred Cornish. We have our own language here and some Cornish want independence - that isn’t possible though. 😂 Falmouth is a university town and where my son goes to study. The university specialises in arts and marine studies. My daughter finished her illustration degree there. Cornwall is very much a creative County and so, as a photographer myself, it is ideal. Falmouth, however is by far not the best place to visit. Try viewing the following - St Mawes, St Just in Roseland, Landsend, The Lizard, Mousehole, Newquay, and cape Cornwall. There are so many places. Cornwall has a micro climate so it is fairly warm but you get humidity with heat and moisture - when it rains here it REALLY rains. Floods are common place. Something we are used to but take visitors by surprise. Cornish pasty is steak and onions and potatoes, Swede in pastry. It is seasoned well with salt and pepper. A good pasty is amazing, a bad one is just sad.

Omg so happy that you have fond a video of the place we're i live most of the place are only an couple of hours away from were I live thank you beautiful ladys of this video

Natasha and Debbie, please check out Kynance cove 4k drone footage on youtube. That's in Cornwall too, look out for the upload with sunglare at the beginning, It's a stunningly beautiful place. Also Porthcurno beach, the minack open air theatre looks down on it. Pedn vender beach is next to it, that's great too. Also St. Michael's mount, i could go on, hahaha. Enjoy! 👍🏻

So glad you have seen a bit of Cornwall! I've lived here my whole life and still have places I haven't had a chance to explore yet. I live close to St Michaels Mount an dit is as spectacular as it looks in the video, that been said, as a local, we miss out on a lot of exploring during the summer as it is so busy here with visitors. Tourism keeps the county running but does impact local people in a lot of ways.

Will certainly join you ladies on Friday x

Not only the Minac Theatre was missed, but St Ives, Mevagissey, and Port Isaac (the loction for Doc Martin, don't know if you can get that there.), Padstow, Fowey, Newquay, Bodmin Moor, Lands End.

That bridge is iconic and fantastic as a viewpoint

I used to live in Cornwall (pronounced cormall i know that is not how it is spelt it confuses me too lol) specifically in a town called St Austell (pronounced Saint orstall) which is a 10 minute walk from Charlestown and 40 minute to 1 hour drive from the Eden project. I also lived in an incredible seaside port town called Looe near Polperro. The climate in Cornwall in not very warm it is commonly very cold, windy and rainy most of the year because most places are by the shore and if they are not then they will most likely have a river flowing thru it (so if you do come to Cornwall I would recommend to pack jackets and gloves and hats because you will most likely need them). Two places they didn't mention are 2 nature walks called Cardinham woods (pronouced car din nerm) and Respryn they are both quite small nature areas but have quite a few footpaths weaving in and out of the wooded areas and have incredible views from certain spots and on beaches in Cornwall yes there are many but do not expect them to be all sandy some are just pebbles (small rocks) but they are still quite beautiful when it comes to features of the area like cliffs and other things. If you do decide to explore Cornwall enjoy you will love it i have not lived there 2 years now and I do miss it at times.

Cornwall is in southwest. You should check out dorset where i live. Poole dorset ,southwest. near the famous sandbanks beach. Southeast is kent

St.Ives is a beautiful place and especially the scenic coastal train ride from St.Erth to St.Ives.

Tin is an ore like iron a side effect from the mining days is Lithium which is the new thing that will be mined or refined from the water left in the mines

The castle on the island looks like something out of a fantasy novel

A Cornish Pasty is made from short crust pastry and filled with swede, potato, Onion and minced lamb. It has a thick twisted crust because it was originally lunch for tin miners, they could hold it by the crust so as not to get the food dirty. Sometimes they make sweet ones usually with apple and cinnamon. You can buy pasties up to 12 inches long. Debbie you have to have a clotted cream ice cream. Don't miss out on a cream tea. The weather in Cornwall has a climate akin to the med. Fistral beach in Newquay is the best surfing beach. Cornwall is surrounded by beaches, the one he spoke about is not well known. The best restaurant in Polperro is the Lord Nelson, especially if you like sea food. Most pubs sell food and you cannot beat a ploughmans lunch, which is a platter with an individual mini loaf of bread, big hunk of cheese, pickle and salad. Wash it down with a glass of cider which Cornwall is famous for. Mead is another drink, it is a sweet wine made with honey. Must stop, I love Cornwall.

Palm trees, tropical and other Mediterranean plants grow well in Cornwall and up the west coast because of the Gulf Stream that travels up the west coast. So the climate is very mild. Cornwall rarely gets frost so is well suited for the beach life.😁

Debbie you would love the clotted cream ice cream. Cornwall is known for its many beaches and coves, excellent surfing waters, with a good micro climate, down the furthest point Penzance, you can travel over to the Isles of Sicily a few miles away, by water or air, perfect for nature lovers

I haven't been to St Michael's Mount since I was a teenager but it is very impressive. There are a lot of small fishing villages along the South coast which are well worth a visit as long as you don't mind walking up and down slopes - in a lot of cases the car park is at the top of the rise (like Clovelly in Devon). If you want big beaches then you want the north coast where the best surfing beaches are (that's the Atlantic Ocean out there).

Description of the Cornish Pasty. All pasties are a pastry pocket usually filled with meat and gravy. The Cornish Pasty however is semi-circular with a very thick crust around the curved edge. Traditionally the Cornish women would make them for the hard working men in the tin mines. They would be filled half with meat and gravy, the other half would be fruit and berries so you had lunch and pudding in the same meal but the fruity half has been lost in time - now they're all meat and gravy. The reason for the thick rolled up pastry edge is that is where the miner would hold his meal and once eaten all the good stuff, he would discard the crust so he didn't get tin poisoning from the raw tin on his hands.

Check out the Scilly isles just past the tip of Cornwall. Amazing tropical gardens due to a warm climate. A must see

Excellent work very kewl 😎

We live 10 minutes drive from the border of Cornwall in Devon. Cornwall is beautiful second only to Devon imho where we live. People often drive through on the way to Cornwall and miss all the Devon loveliness leaving it for us! Enjoying your channel ladies.

My eldest daughter lives in Cornwall in Truro, she's a singer in the cathedral choir (proud mum moment). You also didn't get to see the amazing Minack Theatre and Lands End where people finish their 1,000-odd mile long distance walk from John O Groats in Scotland, so hopefully you'll get to see those when you check out more Cornwall videos. PS: You cracked me up with your bloopers at the start :)

Edited to add info on Cornish Pasty... A Cornish Pasty is shortcrust pastry, so it’s firm enough to hold it up as you eat it. Inside there is minced beef, onion, potato and turnip (rutabaga?) it also has a very peppery flavour. Debbie look up recipes for Cornish Pasty. Cornish Pasty. Is a Protected term, there are other Pasty recipes, BUT it can only be called Cornish Pasty if it is made to a traditional recipe and made in Cornwall. If you wanted to make one Debbie look around KZfaq, or look up a British show called “Inside the factory”. They have many different shows, but they did one where they went into a Factory making Pasties. Ohhh Natasha is in one of those moods... lol... When I was a kid, one of my little brothers was watching TV and the aliens said “we come in peace” (I think it was Mars Attacks). Later that week we were eating dinner and he was pushing his peas around the plate and then he says “why do aliens come in peas?” My dad almost choked on his dinner (I blamed the peas). Mum was rushing to correct it to peace....they come in PEACE! Even I was too young to grasp what he’d actually said...

You did it again, great vid ladies. Those bloopers cracked me up. Love Cornwall, went there years ago for two week tour of Devon/Cornwall. Glorious. It’s a 9 hour drive but worth it for one of Debbie’s cones. Live the dream! See you Friday. 🥰♥️😎

Lots of Palm Trees in some areas of Scotland ! Also other parts of the South Coast.

Back-in-the-day, the Cornish tin miners went over to the USA to show Americans how to mine tin. There are Descendants of those tin miners who make Cornish Pasties, though strictly speaking you can’t call it Cornish unless the pasty is made in Cornwall

Been lucky enough to visit Cornwall along with neighbouring Devon on many occasions. Wonderful places apart from occasionally when the weather gets discribed as the same as the country itself which is GREY BRITAIN 😂 & Happy Birthday 🎂

Other places to visit in the UK that may not have mentioned is Dorset, Devon, the isle of Wight off southampton/Portsmouth which is reach by ferry. places like Godshill, Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor, Ryde, Allum bay where you can buy a glass model of a light house and fill it with various coloured sand which is natural to that area of the island. My wife and i have just returned from a holiday at a trailer park at West Bay in Dorset a small fishing village with plenty of pubs and a large beach. if you go there go to the yard which sells lot of strange by wonderful nicknacks for sale. Maybe when you both decide to retire or take time out from work and you want to visit the uk set aside a year to see as much as you can. my wife and i live about a ten minute drive from Runnymede (home of the Magna Carta), the Kennedy memorial and Windsor Castle which you can visit. I feel we are very lucky to live in the UK with all it has to offer.

Hi, there are 300 beaches > Cornwall and the county right next door is Devon which also has loads of beaches. If you the series Poldark you'll see some amazing Cornish scenery.

I’m from south London but I must say that Cornish ice cream is the best in the world

He obviously wasn't making this with Natasha in mind, otherwise he would have mentioned that Falmouth has TWO castles - Pendennis Castle on the town side of the river and St Mawes Castle on the other bank of the river.

So I'm now committed to making sure I watch all the ads for you. KZfaq must have heard me because they put a 9 minute ad about a cycling 🚲 team on 🤣🤣 gave me time to make a cup of tea 🍵 though lol

There are palm trees on the west coast of Scotland. It's all down to the gulf stream.

Hi Natasha and Debbie! This guy seemed to concerntrate more on the eastern end of Cornwall. If you like surfing then Newquay is the UK's surf capital. Going further west, you've got St. Ives where The Tate has a gallery there and The Barbara Hepworth Museum. Barbara Hepworth was a famous sculptor who moved to St Ives in thirties and lived there till her death in 1975. At Boscastle near Tintagel, there is The Witchcraft Museum that's worth a visit. Finally I would also mention The Minack Theatre which is a theatre built into a cliff-face near Porthcurno. xx

Workers used to take pasties for their working day with meat one end and sweet things the other end, with their whole meal in one pastry case. Watched fireworks at polperro one year on guy Fawkes night 🎆

I am lucky enough to live in Cornwall and I love it such a diverse things to see and do there is so much history around the county.

Tin is a metal and is basically powder extracted from the rock then melted down to turn it into metal products

Lovely ladies , there are loads of beaches on the north and south coasts of Cornwall . I live in the county next door Devon and we have palm tree's right up the southern coast .🇬🇧

I was at Tintagel castle 'way back: there were some blokes halfway down the slope; we were told that they were archaeologists; I've no idea how they managed to hold on, much less work, at a 45 degree angle. Surprised the Men-an-Tol didn't get a mention, or the prehistoric village of Carn Euny, with its unique fogou. But then, Cornwall is chock full of ancient monuments as well as a million other places of interest

I went to polperro nearly every year it is gorgeous,takes me back very happy memories, Cornwall and Devon are stunning places like heaven on earth.

The minack theatre and st Michael's mount are two of the most amazing places that I have been to in Cornwall. However they both are fairly high so Debbie it might not be your cup of tea. My mum is terrified of heights and couldn't really do either. But I got some absolutely incredible photos of both places. I took one photo at st Michaels mount from across the water on land looking at the castle and then one from the top of the castle pointing back to where I took the first photo and the 2 points of view are incredible. But the minack theatre was just something else entirely I can't actually think of any words to describe it that would do it complete justice!

When you said, at 14:06 that about just loving the water flowing and the greenery is exactly what I love and what I wish I could enjoy. I don't believe he didn't show Land's End or Lizard Point. Also St. Ives which is the most beautiful village.

Woo. I live in Cornwall and I'm very lucky. I can walk to at least 6 beaches from my house. The beaches are truly gorgeous.

I'm from the county of Devon which is close to Cornwall. There are some close historical links to the U.S. in the county of Devon. The naval city of Plymouth 1620 the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth with the pilgrim fathers.

Hello girls, love your show, to me your like a box of frogs not knowing what is going to happen when you lift the lid of your next show. I live in Hastings on the South East corner of the UK and we have palm trees. The Hastings aera is the site of the Normans invading the UK IN 1066. By the way Happy Birthday to Debbie on the 21st of March, the day after my 79th birthday. Keep up the good work girls.

Next to Polperro is a town called Looe which has lots of opportunity for fishing for visitors. And if you like Ice Cream , the best is Cornish ice cream.

Me again! Well, you know who to ask you to guide you around Cornwall. Anyway - they’ve been filming the Game of Thrones prequel on St Michael’s Mount. My wife used to be the manager of St Michael’s Mount. Oh, and the gardeners have to abseil!

Tin (chem. St, from Latin stannum) is found only in a very few places in Europe, and it is thought that this is why Cornwall was first connected with, say, the Mediterranean. Copper was quite plentiful, but it's a soft-ish metal. Mix copper and tin and you get bronze (which is very hard). The tin mines were a going concern until the 19th century (see the show/books 'Poldark').

Had more holidays in Cornwall than i remember! 68 n going again in August! Camping n coastal walks overlooking st Michaels mount! Try the Lizard peninsula

Cornish pasty was originally a miners meal, because miners hands were filthy from mining tin. The ridge on the top was the handle, the pasty was divided in 2 on the inside. One end was your meal, generally thought to be finely cut up meat and vegetables, the other end was your desert generally thought to be stewed fruit with no juice. That left you with the handle which you threw away because it was covered in dirt. That Mexican thing you said, have no idea what that is, you don't get the original Cornish pasty any more, but don't mind the one's you get now.

Finally girls !! I live in Cornwall and although I’m a Londoner,Cornwall is a magical mystical beautiful land I call home. Plus,we have the best beaches in Europe.

Cornwall is great - So is Devon

My stepmother was Cornish and so I have first hand info on how to make them. You use shortcrust pastry, usually cut to the size of a tea plate, unless you have an enormous appetite then you could use a dinner plate. You fill the centre with beef skirt, cut into small dice, very finely sliced potato, white onion, and swede. Season with a little salt and plenty of pepper and I always add a knob of butter on top. Moisten the edges of the pastry to ensure a good seal, then bring a side up and over the filling to meet on the other side. There is a bit of an art to crimping the pastry but you do it the best you can to ensure the contents won't leak .Brush the top with beaten egg and bake in a hot oven for approximately 40 minutes. Delicious!!! I hope Debbie gives it a go and let us know how she got on. P.S you can you minced beef instead of beef skirt.

The pastie is a full meal wrapped in a tough leathery yet tasty pastry designed to be put in a satchel or larrge pocket and eating for lunch by miners and farmers

Cornwall is pretty mild. Its south west. Falmouth is great I lived there for years. Its a university town so can be reasonably busy for a Cornish town.

I am going to start out by pointing out that Cornwall is in the South West not South East. On a nice day the weather can be amazing, and mostly warmer than other parts of the UK, but this is right on the atlantic coast, and gets most of the bad weather coming in off the ocean, it is also normally the next landfall for the Florida hurricanes when they turn out to sea. Most of those hurricanes have blown themselves out when they reach there it is just the after effects. Now as a Brit who was born in Norfolk (I have never heard of Ice Cream Boats however) that was raised in North Devon and now lives in California let me explain the difference between empanadas and pasties. They are mostly the same in my experience, similar shape and have fillings. However a Cornish pasty has a very thick crust, this was so the tin miners could eat the pasty with dirty hands, traditionally the crust was not eaten. I am told there is only 1 shop in Cornwall still making them traditionally (half savory filling and half sweet or so I am led to believe). A cornish pasty is normally made of beef, either steak lumps or minced (ground) beef and veg including potatoes and is normally much larger than an empanada. Ginesters is not a good Cornish pasty but an OK one, look for a good local bakery and by from them. These days there are 2 types of pasty a shortcrust pastry version where the seem is over the top and a flaky one with the seem around the edge, the flaky one is more traditional. If you do visit and you like good ice cream, head to North Devon in the summer and find a Hockings Ice Cream Van (Instow sea front often or Bideford park) this is the best ice cream in the world, it is made locally with clotted cream. Another few fun facts about Cornwall, it is the main focus point of the internet there are a lot of transatlantic cables that come from the US and around the world that lands in Cornwall. Cornwall and North Devon have a lot of the best beaches in Europe and even some of the best in the world. The most famous is Newquay. Also the North Devon coast, Saunton, Croyde and Woolacombe beaches where the D-Day training beaches for the US troops.

Yes! You should DEFINITELY check out the Cornish beaches!!!

Love Cornwall been going since I was a child Tintagel is amazing and you can get the best Cornish fudge from there it’s yummy

Torquay in Devon (right next to Cornwall) has palm trees, nice place to visit

THere are many beaches and lots the tourists do not know which is great for us locals to go to in the summer when the known beaches get crowded